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elling "Heil Hitler" from the
back of a police car shortly
after he gunned down three
people at Kansas City-area Jewish
facilities, Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. left
little room to doubt that the motive for
Sunday's deadly attack was anything
but a hate crime.
The shootings took place Sunday
afternoon at the Overland Park Jewish
Community Center and at the nearby
Village Shalom retirement facility
President Barack Obama on Sunday
night called the day's shooting attack
"horrific" and "heartbreaking:' as
townspeople held a vigil in honor of
the victims.
Two of the victims were a teenage
boy and his grandfather: 14-year-
old Reat Griffin Underwood and
Dr. William Lewis Corporon were
reported to be members of the United
Methodist Church of the Resurrection
in Leawood, a suburb of Kansas City.
Though the family is Christian, local
NBC affiliate KSHB TV reported that
the two had come to the Overland
Park Jewish Community Center as
Reat wanted to try out for the local
high school singing competition "KC
Superstar," auditions for which were
being held at the JCC.
A third woman in her 70s was killed
at Village Shalom. Her name had not
been released at JN press time.
Miller 73, lives in Aurora, Mo.
According to USA Today, police
booked him into the Johnson County,
Kansas, jail Sunday evening, and
charged him with premeditated mur-
der
The suspect, a former member of
the Ku Klux Klan and white suprema-
cist candidate for political office, has
a long history of anti-Semitic violence
and hate crimes, including involve-
ment in at least one other murder.
In 1984, while he ran for office in
North Carolina, he and other members
of a racist hate group that called itself
"the Order" were accused of murder-
ing liberal Jewish talk show host Alan
Berg in Denver.
Miller, however, agreed to testify
against 10 co-conspirators in exchange
Victims Dr. William Lewis Corporon
and grandson Reat Griffin
, or
for a reduced sentence. With the help
of Miller's testimony, four conspirators
were convicted.
In a 2010 interview with Jewish
radio show host Howard Stern, Miller
was asked who he hated more, Jews
or African-Americans, to which he
responded, "Jews. A thousand times
more. Compared to our Jewish prob-
lem, all other problems are mere dis-
tractions:'
On Sunday evening the local Jewish
and Christian communities held a
joint vigil in memory of the victims at
the St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal
Church. Several community leaders
spoke there, and congregants sang
songs together. Many of Reat's school-
mates were also said to have attended.
The attack began at about 1 p.m.,
local time, when the gunman shot the
first two victims in a parking lot near
the JCC's theater. Corporon died at the
scene, while his grandson was evacu-
ated to a hospital and later died of his
wounds there. The gunman then fled
and opened fire at Village Shalom,
killing a woman in her 70s about 15
minutes after the first shooting.
Two other people were shot at, but
the gunfire missed them, authorities
said.
Police took Miller into custody at
the Valley Park Elementary School,
several blocks from Village Shalom, a
short time later.
"We are deeply saddened by what hap-
pened in Kansas City," said Heidi Budaj,
regional director, Michigan Region,
Anti-Defamation League in Southfield.
"This horrific incident reminds us that
the work the ADL performs each day to
fight hatred and bigotry is as important
today as it was when ADL was founded
101 years ago.
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